Ep 68 - Making your own Path with Jason Chatfield
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New York-based cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield talks about how the business of being an artist has changed over the last two decades. This episode is full of essential advice and our best ideas about sustaining an independent creative career. It is the conclusion of the conversation from Ep 67. 💡 Follow from this episode. 📚 Buy Jason’s book, 📲 Check out to learn about all his work and sign up to his . ☕ Like this episode? . 🔥 Love the show? Support it by . ✍🏼 Follow SneakyArt on .
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Ep 67 - Stand up & Sit down with Jason Chatfield
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New York-based cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield speaks about taking over Australia’s iconic daily comic strip, Ginger Meggs, at the tender age of 23, and how he sees the path ahead for syndicated comic strips and the newspaper industry. Other topics include - the evolution of humour over time, not doing political comedy, Derrida, and people-watching at the MoMA. Big stuff. Also, the difference between meme-ification and mummification. This is the first episode of a two-part conversation. 💡 For all the good links and ideas from this episode, to see the cheatsheet of this...
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Ep 66 - From Heart Attack to Renewal with Jeff Schmidt
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London-based educator, artist and author Jeff Schmidt, speaks about his book “Heart Attack - Finding hope, joy and inspiration in adversity”. This conversation is about the big and small things that can transform our life in unexpected ways, and Jeff’s resolution to live inspired - by making room for the things that bring joy to his life. 📚 Buy Jeff’s book, . ☕ Like this episode? . 🔥 Love the show? Take the summer deal to . 💡 For all the good ideas from this episode, . 📲 Follow Jeff Schmidt on and check out . ✍🏼 Follow SneakyArt on .
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Ep 65 - War and Not-War with Nina Khashchina
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California-based illustrator Nina Khashchina shares the experience of daily video calls with her parents in Kharkiv, after Ukraine was invaded and the bombs fell everyday. She speaks about recommitting to the Ukrainian language as part of her war effort. A wild book list appears. This is the second of a two-part conversation. 🎙 Listen to the first part, . ☕ Like this episode? . 🔥 Love the show? (and get a special listener discount!) 💡 For all the good ideas from this episode, . 📲 Follow Nina Khashchina on and check out . ✍🏼 Follow SneakyArt on .
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Ep 64 - Growing up in Ukraine with Nina Khashchina
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California-based illustrator Nina Khashchina speaks about her childhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, growing up in the former USSR, her lifelong journey with art, and how she documents her life through sketchbooks. . This is the first of a two-part conversation. ☕ Like this episode? . 🔥 Love the show? 💡 For all the good ideas from this episode, join 9000+ people and of the SneakyArt Post. 📲 Follow Nina Khashchina on and check out . ✍🏼 Follow SneakyArt on .
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Ep 63 - (Part 2) Sketching Here & Everywhere with Christina Wald
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Cincinatti-based Christina Wald speaks about how to live and thrive as an independent artist and illustrator. They discuss Kickstarter, Patreon, and ways to keep the creative process at the heart of your practice, and the creator in the economy. This episode is the second part of the conversation from Ep 62. ☕ Like this episode? . 🔥 Love the show? . 💡 For all the good ideas from this podcast, join 8000+ people to of the SneakyArt Post. 📲 Follow Christina Wald on and check out for the latest projects. ✅ Catch the ✍🏼 Follow SneakyArt on .
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Ep 62 - Sketching Here & Everywhere with Christina Wald
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Cincinatti-based Christina Wald speaks about how to live as, and making a living from, being an independent artist and illustrator. This is a conversation about how to work for yourself while meeting client expectations. It is about Christina’s multiple successful Kickstarter projects, including her latest book (link below). This episode is for anyone eager to chart their own path as an independent creator. Lots of practical advice, listen carefully! 💡 For all the good ideas from this conversation, and join 8000+ readers of the SneakyArt Post. 📲 Follow Christina Wald on and...
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Ep 61 - Design Thinking with Ellen Vesters
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Utrecht-based sketcher, illustrator and educator Ellen Vesters speaks about the design-thinking approach to life and all the things she does. After practicing as a psychologist, and getting an MA in Illustration, Ellen founded the Venster Academy to teach art and illustration. Nishant also shares the story of how he accidentally became an artist while trying to become a writer after quitting his PhD program in Neuroscience. If you have wondered about taking a big leap in your life, this conversation will give you some ideas! 💡 For all the links and ideas from this conversation, read...
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Ep 60 - Words are just Lines too
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Host Nishant Jain presents the idea that writing and drawing are literally the same thing. If you can do one, you can also do the other. This episode was recorded for paid subscribers of SneakyArt. ❤️ Love this show? to support it! More good ideas: 💻 Read . 📖 Learn his first book of art 🔁 Play Finite v Infinite Games and to success 💻 Watch the for SneakyArt Insiders 📚 Celebrate ✍🏼 For more good ideas every week, .
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Ep 59 - Never Look at the Numbers
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Host Nishant Jain takes a look at Goodhart’s Law, originally coined to describe monetary policy, but applies it instead to the business of being an artist today. No matter how successful (or unsuccessful) you are at social media, here are some good reasons to never look at the numbers. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measure." - Goodhart's Law. ❤️ Love this episode? and get future Insider episodes directly in your inbox. 👂 Listen to shared with Insiders! 🎙 Listen to 🎯 Read Nishant's plans for ✍🏼 Read the from the episode.
info_outlineBest-selling author Amy Stewart (”Flower Confidential”, “Drunken Botanist”, “Girl Waits with Gun”) talks about her disinclination to pick a lane, the ideas that have helped her navigate a successful writing career, and the role of art in her creative practice.
This conversation addresses several dichotomies of the creative life - instant vs delayed gratification, processes vs results, art vs writing, and sticking to a lane vs sticking to one’s convictions. It is about understanding how Amy gets so many things done.
It is a conversation about many things and then some more - cocktails, 19th century feminism, gardening, poisons, the global flower industry, and people who collect trees. It is an episode about “one and a half things.”
Catch all the best ideas in the show notes.
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